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...drawing room of the lonely castle, the English owner, Mrs. Tennant, whose son is away on active service, sits with her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Jack, and tries to talk about the only two things that interest her-her son and the reliability of the servants. But Mrs. Jack hardly answers; unknown to her mother-in-law, she is a mass of nerves trying to conceal her love for another...
...Majority stockholders: Publisher David Tennant Bryan and his family, who also control Richmond's only other paper, the morning Times-Dispatch. Freeman's opposite number on the Times-Dispatch is famed Southern Editor Virginius Dabney...
Escape. To Wolfgang Foges, 38, Future is a show window for a resourceful printing company known as "Adprint," which is backed by Britain's potent chemical firm, C. Tennant Sons & Co. Ltd. Tennant helped Foges get out of Vienna shortly before the Anschluss; he had already made a name as editor of a youth magazine at 17, a fashion magazine...
Under the Tennant wing, Foges founded Adprint in 1937, and made it a refugee rendezvous. It printed playing cards and catalogues, supplied teams of experts to produce books in "packages," all ready for publishers to bring out. Its cheap ($1) Britain in Pictures series sold 4,000,000 copies, ran to 120 volumes covering everything from windmills to cricket...
London editors headlined the story, printed helpful maps to show Britons where Belize is. The Manchester Guardian deadpanned: "The Devonshire has left Belize for the time being. Admiral Tennant, commander-in-chief of the West Indies Station, and Sir Edward Hawkes-worth, governor of British Honduras, have been out together on a fishing trip...